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AIDS Activist Wants Developed World to Keep Promises

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Renowned AIDS activist Stephen Lewis made an impassioned plea for the world's developing nations to stop the spread of the disease in poorer nations.

Lewis, a former United Nations official, was at Brown University on Saturday to urge students to pressure the G8 and the U.N. to live up to their promises of fighting the disease that is pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.